File & Web Services Navigation
Personal File and Web Space
Engineering students, faculty and staff may request "people" lockers that are configured with a www folder for content delivered to the web and a private folder for file storage with no web access. A short URL serves content from the www folder to http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/unityid/.
Who can request a personal locker?
Engineering students, faculty and staff.
How do I request a personal locker?
- REQUEST A LOCKER. (Engineering students, faculty and staff only.)
- Select Personal.
- Select the COE Department you are in from the pull-down menu.
Your Unity ID should appear automatically in the Owner field. - Specify Non-web Quota for private volume, usually 50-200MB, but up to 2000MB.
- Specify Web Quota for www volume, usually 50-200MB, but up to 2000MB.
- Request Website Database (optional).
- Select Continue to get a summary of what you entered.
- Select Commit if correct or Edit to go back and change.
You will be notified by email when the space is set up. To request more quota, get a database, or otherwise manage an existing locker, please use the LOCKER PORTAL.
Path and URL
Your people locker contains two sublockers, private and www.They look like any other folder in AFS. However, each is an independent AFS volume with its own quota:
- private is for non-web AFS file space (/afs/eos/lockers/people/a-z/unityid/private/) to supplement what a user gets in his/her Unity account at /afs/unity/users/a-z/unityid/. Nothing from private is served to the web.
- www is for a user web site (/afs/eos/lockers/people/a-z/unityid/www/) delivered from http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/unityid/, including dynamic PHP-enabled web hosting and optional MySQL database.
The first part of the path, /afs/eos/lockers/people/, is the same for everyone who has a personal locker. After that point, the path diverges into lockers labeled a through z for the first letter of your Unity ID, then into specific lockers, and then into www or private.
Path to the private volume in an individual's personal locker:
/afs/eos/lockers/people/[a-z]/[unityid]/private/
e.g.,
/afs/eos/lockers/people/m/mcdaniel/private/
Path to the www volume in an individual's personal locker:
/afs/eos/lockers/people/[a-z]/[unityid]/www/
e.g.,
/afs/eos/lockers/people/m/mcdaniel/www/
Corresponding URL for www volume in an individual's personal locker:
http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/unityid/
e.g.,
http://people.engr.ncsu.edu/mcdaniel
Permissions
The owner's Unity ID is placed on the access control list (ACL) of his or her personal locker (the other groups are for system administrators and server access). A typical access control list (ACL) for a personal locker looks like the one below for mcdaniel. The locker-specific path and owner are in bold. No additional permission groups are created for personal lockers, as they are for other lockers you may have.
/afs/eos/lockers/people/m/mcdaniel/ % fs la
Access list for . is
Normal rights:
itecs-admin:lockeraudit rl
system:administrators rlidwka
mcdaniel rl
/afs/eos/lockers/people/m/mcdaniel/private/ % fs la
Access list for . is
Normal rights:
itecs-admin:lockeraudit rl
system:administrators rlidwka
mcdaniel rlidwk
/afs/eos/lockers/people/m/mcdaniel/www/ % fs la
Access list for . is
Normal rights:
itecs-admin:lockeraudit rl
engr:www-servers rl
system:administrators rlidwka
mcdaniel rlidwk
Only the owner is listed by UnityID on the ACL. In personal lockers, you do not have "a" rights (rlidwka). As a result, if you want to set up a web site in your www space, you will need to do it yourself. You cannot grant someone access to help you build it. You will need to use AFS fs and pts Commands; there is no web interface.
Need more help?
Contact engr-webmaster@ncsu.edu for engineering web support.
You can also build a web site in your Unity account.
See where file and web lockers (PDF) live in Eos file space.